Topband: Remote now DXCC??

[Gary Smith]

It's not that my opinion really matters to anyone but me. I was 
thinking more that right or wrong, somebody somewhere will do wrong. 
I wasn't thinking as much along the lines of the complaining not 
helping (which it doesn't).

For instance: In my garage I have a tool, a 9 pound sledge hammer 
that belonged to my grandfather. One solid whack with it and a lot of 
force is imparted to a very tiny area and things always either break 
or move. I suppose there's all kinds of bad things I could do with it 
but I use it to break up the rocks the glacier left on what is now my 
yard so I can mow over rather than around them.

The analogy to me is if a person has a tool they either use it 
properly or improperly and that's up to the person holding the 
sledge. 

RHR doesn't make an operation immoral any more than making an ATNO 
DXCC contact while mobile in a different state than you live is 
immoral to claim for DXCC credit. To me and apparently to many, it's 
not where the operator sits, its where the transmitter sits. As to 
people breaking the rules; cops give out tickets every day. A tool 
does not a problem make.

73,

Gary,
KA1J


> Yes you are probably right that protesting won't change a thing.  But should
> that mean that when something negative like this happens, that voicing an
> objection is not considered?  Should we just shrug and say 'whatever'.  Some
> do say whatever.  Yes cheating has been around for some time.  The question
> is where do you set your standards?  High or low.  Yes it is just a hobby,
> but how it plays affects us in other ways.
> Doug 
> 
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> 
> > *** Let me help out here.  I have gone on record in past postings that I
> > personally do NOT have a problem with remote operations in the vicinity of
> > their home station.  The problem is people using remotes in different
> > countries and on different sides of the continent to inflate their
> > standings.
> > 
> > Doug
> 
> As to this specific thing; If someone is in another country close to 
> rare DX, visits a ham and uses their station and then uses their own 
> home call when making the easy Q, that's cheating. This kind of 
> cheating has been possible all along, it may make it easier with 
> today's technology. 
> 
> I never worked Don Miller but I did work Romeo, both DXers were 
> notorious for supposedly claiming to be where they weren't & slews of 
> people worked them feeling they worked a legit operation. I worked 
> Romeo in 91 as XY0RR and got his QSL & it counted for DXCC. Once I 
> heard the flap about his operation, I didn't feel I fairly worked 
> Myanmar until I got confirmation from XZ1J for a Q in 2013.
> 
> People have been claiming DXCC credit unfairly and giving it for 
> years. RHR will not make anything new happen. I just sent something 
> offlist to one of us and I agree with what I said... "As to people 
> not doing the right thing with a tool, that's been happening since 
> those apes hit each other with femurs in the opening scene in the 
> movie 2001".
> 
> Or as the Who said in "We won't get fooled again: "Meet the new Boss, 
> same as the old Boss".
> 
> People have been cooking the books for years & someone always will 
> be; hasn't stopped me from having fun for 35+ years.
> 
> 73,
> 
> Gary
> KA1J
> 
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